Good news!  DocBookWiki is now in Debian unstable, albeit in the 
non-free archive (due to a silly licence problem with a Javascript 
file).  If you are using Debian unstable, you can just "apt-get update ; 
apt-get install docbookwiki" to install it.

A couple of caveats:

* I produced a few testing Debian packages before the official one was
   accepted.  Because these were never official, the official package
   makes no attempt to cleanly upgrade from them.  For this reason you
   must manually purge any existing DocBookWiki package you may have
   installed (dpkg --purge docbookwiki).  This will not be necessary
   for any future upgrades, just this first one.

* Similarly, if you have installed docbookwiki from source, you are
   likely to encounter problems if you try installing this one on top.
   Remove it first (including dropping any webnotes database you may
   have).

* The biggest change to the upstream version is that the package is
   located in /usr/share/docbookwiki rather than /var/www/books, due to
   Debian policy.  The package will attempt to configure Apache to load
   http://localhost/books from this location, however.  Similarly the
   books.conf file has been moved to /etc/docbookwiki (which required
   patching a few files).

* The other patch that I have applied (and Dashamir will roll his eyes
   at me for this) is the one described in my bug report here:
   http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
   msg00124.html.  Although Dashamir can't replicate the bug, I *swear*
   that it occurs for me; without this patch, the path to images is
   wrong.  Maybe someone else could try to verify?

* update.sh still isn't working for me either (per the bug report here:
   http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
   msg00112.html), but a fix for that isn't included in this package.
   I'm working on one and will submit it to Dashamir hopefully for the
   next minor version.

That's about all.  Please try the package out and let me know how you 
get on.

-- 
Jeremy Malcolm LLB (Hons) B Com
Internet and Open Source lawyer, IT consultant, actor
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